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1. Bradley M. Kuhn The Samba project , The GNU General Public License , Jeremy Allison

   On #lfcollab Legal Track, @jra takes the stage to discuss why !Samba switched to the !GPLv3. Starts with a walk through the past (1990s).

   Thursday, 07-Apr-11 23:06:45 UTC from web
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Jeremy Allison

     #lfcollab: @jra points out each little part of SMB you implemented, once you figured it out on the wire, was valuable, thus needed copyleft.

     Thursday, 07-Apr-11 23:07:47 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Free Software Foundation , The Samba project , The GNU General Public License , Jeremy Allison

     At #lfcollab Legal Track, @jra notes that !Samba Team was honored and glad to be asked to give input to !FSF for !GPLv3 drafting process.

     Thursday, 07-Apr-11 23:09:28 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn The Samba project , The GNU General Public License , Jeremy Allison

     #lfcollab: @jra tells of the problem of !GPLv2 §4 overly strict termination clause, which is bad for !Samba & really any other project.

     Thursday, 07-Apr-11 23:15:53 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Linux , The GNU General Public License , Jeremy Allison

     #lfcollab: @jra just said most controversial thing of our track: "Selecting !GPLv2 only is an anti-social act". !Linux developers all waved.

     Thursday, 07-Apr-11 23:23:11 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Linux , The GNU General Public License , Greg K-H , Jeremy Allison

     #lfcollab: @gregkh asks @jra "did you just say implicitly it's good !Linux is !GPLv2 -only?" @jra: "Maybe, but you should be v2-or-later!"

     Thursday, 07-Apr-11 23:36:55 UTC
   • gabe

     @bkuhn HAHAHA

     Thursday, 07-Apr-11 23:47:32 UTC
   • Alexandre Oliva Jeremy Allison

     ♻ @bkuhn: @jra just said most controversial thing of our track: "Selecting GPLv2 only is an anti-social act".

     Friday, 08-Apr-11 21:46:50 UTC
   • Rob Myers Alexandre Oliva

     @lxoliva: Yeah. Everyone knows it's basically trolling ;-)

     Friday, 08-Apr-11 21:51:43 UTC
   • Alexandre Oliva Rob Myers

     @robmyers heh. still, it's true ;-) it's also stupid to pretty much prohibit even yourself from fixing license bugs

     Friday, 08-Apr-11 22:34:08 UTC
   • Free as in Freedom The Samba project , The GNU General Public License , Free as in Freedom , karen sandler , Jeremy Allison

     !FaiFCast 0x0F: @jra's talk re: !Samba's switch to !GPLv3 (from #lfcollab). @kaz & @bkuhn give their thoughts on it too: http://ur1.ca/44vz9

     Tuesday, 10-May-11 14:23:27 UTC